Sagina procumbens Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 128. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae pascuis sterilibus uliginosis aridis." RCN: 1047.

Lectotype (Jonsell & Jarvis in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 83. 1993): [icon] "Alsine pusilla graminea, flore tetrapetalo" in Séguier, Pl. Veron. 1:421,417, t. 5, f. 3. 1745.

Generitype of Sagina Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 127. 1929).

Current name: Sagina procumbens L. ( Caryophyllaceae).

Note: Jonsell & Jarvis (in Nordic J. Bot. 14: 158. 1994) provided an explanation of their formal 1993 typification.